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    Since there are so many differences with the Hasbro FX Board with Removable Blade, I thought a new wiring diagram is in order. It seems everything we were used to with the fixed blade FX board has been changed. Also, the pololu and lighthound boards will not work with this board. I spent 2 hours figuring that out. I used the same pololu board on a Yoda FX and it worked fine. The problem is with the removable bladed FX board switching the - instead of the + like the fixed blade ones do. The first thing I did was get rid of all the hot glue and resolder all the wires I needed myself. Hasbro has been known for sloppy soldering. Anyway, here is the diagram with a recharge port, illuminated AV switch, remote clash sensor and a single 18650 Li-Ion battery.





    Here is a pic of the back side of the board. I jumpered the pre to the gnd and also I took a 2" piece of stripped wire, pre-tinned it and soldered it on L1 - L6. That way you don't have a bunch of wires in the way.

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    Thanks Rhyen! This is great!

    Thanks Rhyen!
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    Excellent tut Rhyen, very informative and straight to the point... So what your basically saying is, ONLY latching/slide type switches will work with this board? (for now)

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    All of the FX boards have always used the latching switches. But with the older ones you could use the lighthond or pololu boards to convert a momentary switch to latching. With this new FX board you can't use those.

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    Yep thx for the clarification

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    As long as the Gnd goes to the LED - and the L3 goes to the LED + then yes, it looks like it will work. Be sure to add the correct resistor if you need one. Especially with the red P4.

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    Thanks a lot for that wiring diagramm !

    Answers all my questions

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    Yes, all of these boards can handle 4.8V easily. They are designed for 4.5V so a little more is no problem for it.

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